Bang.
Qiu Haonan's tall figure, clad in uniform, fell heavily, crashing into a pool of blood.
Even in death, his eyes were wide open, unable to believe he had died just like that.
"Why?"
"This Shadow has killed so many people, yet dares to stay here?"
"If the military launches a full-scale attack here, he'd be dead. How could he dare..."
Qiu Haonan couldn't figure it out before he completely lost consciousness!
As this investigator fell, the remaining eleven official personnel, led by Late Night Drizzle, sprang into action.
Each of them wore a grave expression.
Two priests raised their hands, casting a group shield skill!
A layer of pure white radiance enveloped the eleven of them, helping to block some of the damage!
Immediately after, two mages gathered fire and lightning elemental energy in their hands, ready to unleash their skills at any moment!
In this tense moment...
Suddenly.
One after another, crimson and eerie flowers began to bloom from all the corpses on the yacht.
Bodies and pools of blood...
All began to evaporate into wisps of ghostly white mist under the absorption of these bizarre flowers!
As the crimson flowers bloomed.
Late Night Drizzle and the others felt a chill run down their spines.
At that moment, they felt as if they had arrived at the banks of the River Styx, watching the ghostly flowers bloom, collecting the souls of the dead...
The vivid and eerie red flowers adorned the entire yacht, turning it into a boundary between life and death!
"Wait, wait... what's with Qiu Haonan..."
At this moment, Late Night Drizzle, dressed in a coast guard uniform, glanced at Qiu Haonan's body and suddenly froze.
"Captain Lin, what's wrong?"
A short-haired woman asked, trembling slightly.
As she asked, cold sweat dripped down her face.
Even though she knew it was impossible to find the 'Shadow,' she still held her pistol, constantly looking around, her heart pounding to the extreme!
"Why did Captain Qiu drop so much lifespan?"
"Such a large orb of lifespan, at least three years' worth, right?"
As Late Night Drizzle spoke, the others also noticed something was off!
Since the Magic Metropolis officials had found a gold-level hideout, the 'Riverside Wreck,' within the ruins.
The officials of Magic City had begun optimizing their exploration and action plans.
They concentrated tradable lifespan on specific personnel, currently referred to as 'standby personnel.'
These standby personnel usually stayed within the hideout, avoiding going out to prevent dropping tradable lifespan upon death!
Every time official members went out to fight monsters, level up, or tackle bosses, they only received ten days of tradable lifespan, reducing potential death losses!
This way, the losses in exploration and boss raids by the Magic Metropolis officials would be minimized!
This rule applied to everyone stationed at the 'Riverside Wreck' hideout, including Qiu Haonan.
But now...
Qiu Haonan was dead, and he dropped over three years of tradable lifespan!
Clearly, this was lifespan he had secretly hoarded.
But how did he have the opportunity to hoard lifespan while always acting with the officials?
As the crimson flowers bloomed all over the yacht, Late Night Drizzle looked around and sighed, "It seems Shadow's target wasn't us, just Captain Qiu..."
"Otherwise, with Shadow's strength, he could have killed us all immediately, but he didn't."
"Moreover, Shadow indeed has means to destroy bodies..."
This feeling of life and death being controlled by someone else was something Late Night Drizzle had never experienced.
It was like being trapped in mud...
Shadow.
This codename, along with the crimson flowers all over the yacht, brought her unimaginable pressure.
Under such pressure, she remained vigilant while gritting her teeth in thought.
"So, what's special about Qiu Haonan?"
Late Night Drizzle suddenly noticed that after the crimson flowers had evaporated Qiu Haonan's body, what remained...
Were three mobile phones!
Usually, they were equipped with two phones.
But...
Qiu Haonan had three?
Late Night Drizzle quickly stepped forward, picked up the three phones, and tossed them to the people around her.
"Check them."
Soon, the results came out.
"What? Captain Qiu was in contact with Qian Shishi all along?"
"He used his position to provide many conveniences to the Qian Group..."
"After the Abandoned Gods Game descended, their contact became more frequent..."
"The contraband drugs on this yacht were brought in by Qiu Haonan to deal with Shadow?!"
"Wait, from their communication, this Qian Shishi seems to be... the Ace of Spades in the game?!"
As the contents of the phones were revealed, Late Night Drizzle and the ten official members around her were all stunned!
Late Night Drizzle quickly pieced everything together from start to finish!
"Shadow first contacted Qian Shishi."
"Qian Shishi wanted to use drugs to control Shadow, but feared being killed, so she had Qiu Haonan bring us to 'test' Shadow."
"As a result, Shadow mercilessly killed us, gaining Qian Shishi's trust."
"When Shadow came to the yacht, he first killed everyone on board, then called the police himself!"
"To ensure Qiu Haonan would come, he intentionally left the yacht full of bodies... In fact, we did detect a large number of bodies on the yacht via satellite, which is why we sent Qiu Haonan, because currently, he's the only investigator who has extracted the skill to search bodies into reality!"
"After we arrived, he killed Qiu Haonan and destroyed all the bodies to prevent us from tracking him through them..."
"In this process, he killed all the enemies! Collected all the lifespan! And finally avoided conflict with the officials!"
Qian Shishi was the wanted 'Ace of Spades,' and Qiu Haonan was the insider colluding with the Ace of Spades...
From another perspective, Shadow was completely fulfilling the official wanted notice this time!
What reason did the officials have to oppose Shadow?
Understanding all this, Late Night Drizzle felt a chill down her spine.
This Shadow was definitely not just strong!
"Fortunately, it seems Shadow doesn't intend to oppose us officials for now."
Late Night Drizzle felt a bit relieved.
Thinking of this, she immediately spoke into the walkie-talkie...
Around the Magic City port, the special forces, snipers on standby, and even missiles ready to launch from a nearby military base, finally stood down...
Originally, the officials were on high alert.
But after confirming 'Shadow' wasn't an enemy, everyone breathed a sigh of relief!
At this moment.
All the bodies on the yacht had evaporated into ghostly white gas under the absorption of the flowers of death, exuding the scent of death.
Late Night Drizzle suddenly looked around the air, biting her lip, and said, "Shadow... thank you for taking care of the Ace of Spades."
"Also, I apologize for shooting at you five times just now."
After speaking, she raised her handgun, loaded it.
Aimed at her own thigh, and fired repeatedly.
Bang bang bang bang bang...
After five shots, her thigh was bleeding profusely, and she knelt on the ground, gritting her teeth, "I've... returned it to you!"
"Captain Lin!"
The short-haired woman beside her was startled and quickly ran over to support her...